Dixie, Florence. Waifs and Strays. Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, 1884.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Dixie | The poem describes the pilgrimage abroad in which the child-author had followed in the footsteps of her dead mountaineer brother. Dixie, Florence. Waifs and Strays. Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, 1884. 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Antonia Fraser | For readers familiar with the Shakespeare
comedy (as Jemima certainly is), parallels are discernible between the personages and situations on stage and those of the actual world—parallels which are unsettling rather than helpful for Jemima... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marie Corelli | Ziska is openly critical of the writings of Zola
, while praising those of Lord Byron
. It also condemns the hypocrisy and destruction of Western imperialism at the fin de siècle: We take possession... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Gingold | She said that some of the poems contained in this volume were written before the age of fifteen. Gingold, Hélène. “Some Press Opinions”. Seven Stories, Remington, 1893. The Season: A Cycle of Verse Gingold, Hélène. “Some Press Opinions”. Seven Stories, Remington, 1893. New York Herald: A Cycle of Verse |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes Milton
and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare
or Byron
or attributed only... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL
plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Brontë | Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB
emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold
paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron
in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | Freed as a disabled woman from the expectations of conventional femininity, Olive leads an independent life and struggles to become a successful painter, strengthened by her reading of Shelley
and Byron
. But she foregoes... |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury
stated abruptly that AH
's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not... |
Literary responses | Laurence Hope | The Garden of Káma proved extremely popular, and was reissued in each of the next fourteen years under various combinations of the two titles (with later editions tending to lose the accent in Káma)... |
Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her. Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2nd series 28 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan
followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans
in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB
... |
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